Our client is a major housing association operating between Oxford and Cambridge, based in Bedford. They are a leading provider and developer of affordable homes - for rent, sheltered, residential care and shared ownership. They own around 18,000 homes, employ 350 people, and have an annual turnover of around £100 million.

They are currently looking for an experienced construction professional with sound knowledge of social housing to lead and manage their large responsive and planned maintenance team.

In this role, you will develop and deliver major, planned, responsive and voids maintenance services, being the technical lead in areas of health and safety.

Providing strategic direction and leadership on service improvements, you will lead and manage the technical team to ensure cost effective and customer driven planned, cyclical responsive and void maintenance programmes. You will ensure that a holistic approach to maintaining the Association's assets is taken whilst delivering excellent standards of customer service.

The successful candidate will be qualified to degree level (or equivalent) and will have experience of managing large scale programmes or work including budget management, reporting and scheduling. Strong management skills are essential and you must have experience working within the affordable housing sector.